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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings
Added: Jun 9, 2026

A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.


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Errol Flynn – The True Story of Australia's Hollywood Icon | Patricia A. O'Brien | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: May 17, 2026

A biography of Errol Flynn written by Patricia O'Brien and published in 2026. Flynn was born in Hobart in 1909 and grew up in Tasmania before heading to New Guinea and eventually to Hollywood, where he became one of the biggest stars of the 1930s and 1940s — known for swashbuckling roles in films like Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk, and for a personal life that generated as much attention as his films.


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A biography of John Lewes Pedder, Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land from 1824 to 1854.

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Boxer Hobo
When a homeless alcoholic boxer wakes up in a Tasmanian Neuro-Trauma ward with a fractured skull, doctors inform him he won't be able to box or drink alcohol ever again.

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Brains in my feet - Encounters while travelling
Stories from a life of travel by Tasmanian born Danny Gardner.

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Breaking the Mould
The story of Joy, a biography of someone who overcame a childhood of violence and abuse in Tasmania.

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Bridging the Strait
A salute to the first man to fly across Bass Strait from mainland Australia to Tasmania, Lieut Arthur L Long.

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Building on Firm Foundations - the Cooper Family in Tasmania - stonemasons, builders and architects
Building on Firm Foundations - a history of the Cooper family in Tasmania - stonemasons, builders and architects.

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Bunyips, Bogans and Brown Dogs
Tales from a life spent on and around Tasmania's waterways.

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Bush Lives 2 – More Tales from the Tasmanian Back Blocks | Nic Haygarth | 2025 [NEW – SC]

The second volume of Nic Haygarth's collection of stories from the Tasmanian bush — 300 pages of tales drawn from the back blocks of the island, covering the people, places and ways of life that define rural and remote Tasmania. Haygarth has spent years researching and writing about Tasmanian bush history, and this second volume follows the same approach as the first — oral histories, anecdotes, characters and incidents from across the state's rural and wilderness fringes.


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Bushfire Heartbreak
Bushfire Heartbreak depicts the horror and threat to life of bushfires.

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BushLife in Tasmania
A reprint of the original work of James Fenton from 1891, describing life in the Tasmanian bush.

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